McCain Needs to Do His Homework About Offshore Drilling and …

McCain claims that oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico “have survived, very successfully, the impacts of hurricanes.” He’s wrong.
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Scoop Clip Keeps Coffee Fresh, Measures [Stuff We Like]

The Scoop Clip from Pampered Chef is a simple but useful multi-tool that works as both a freshness clip and tablespoon and teaspoon measuring tool. It may seem a little silly, but if $5 means you don’t have to fumble bleary-eyed through your drawers for your tablespoon and your coffee’s going to be that much […]

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Things to Do While Waiting for the Future to Happen: Building …

What is the current thinking about cyberinfrastructure for the liberal arts, what models for transinstitutional collaboration and institution building are emerging, and what steps can campuses take to move this agenda forward? …
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Make a Memory Playlist on Your Birthday [Music]

Chris “because I’m a teenage girl” Hardwick has a neat way to remember the music that defines certain times in his life: he makes a playlist (entitled his current age) of his favorite songs …
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Re: Re: Top 5 Things To Do When Twitter is down?

Re: Re: Top 5 Things To Do When Twitter is down?
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What to Do with an “OK” GPA?

Will: Hi Katie. Katie: Hi Will. Will: If I had had a 2.5 GPA would you have let me in? Gimme the real dirt. Katie: The MBA program at Tulane is relatively …
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Make Your Own Light Drawings [How To]

Web site Light Doodles teaches you how to draw in a photograph using light. What the heck’s a light doodle? See an example in the included image, and hit the site for a video of how that was drawn.
Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace […]

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This Week’s Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

GrabUp Makes Screenshot Sharing Effortless (Mac)“Freeware application GrabUp automatically uploads screenshots to the internet and pastes the URL in your clipboard for quick and easy sharing.”
Dock Spaces Creates Context-Specific Docks (Mac)“Free utility Dock Spaces creates and swaps between up to five customizable Docks in Leopard.”
TuneUp Automatically Updates and Fixes Your iTunes Metadata (Windows)“Music application TuneUp […]

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Darik’s Boot and Nuke Securely Wipes Your System in an Emergency [Featured Download]

Free, open-source boot disk utility Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) automatically and completely deletes the content of every hard disk it …
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Studio Wednesday

The first step towards this goal is to create a task list for myself on what I’d like to accomplish in the studio that day. I’ll make my task list up every Tuesday night. Another step in my goal process is to establish a weekly blog …
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